2024 Specialty – Leadership, processes and entrepreneurship / Sacha Menz
Specialty Leader – Sacha Menz
Date: 21st to 23th of May
Our course is a guided tour through the design and building process, covering consultants’ competences and responsabilities of all involved parties. We want to explore the nature of our built environment and we believe that our approach to it can be referred to as building culture: the ways in which we can preserve our services’ integrity will be our prime concern.
Authorship
Through a brief exploration of the architect’s role in society, we compel you to make your own decisions as to what your roles and responsibilities are. The various methodologies, introduced tools and available instruments, will maintain and realise architectural concepts.
Proposal by students Madrigal, Maldonado, Nikolskaia, Real
Collaboration
We pursue our key question as to how we can best work together by introducing you to the guiding principles of the design and building process: the service model. If all involved parties accept the service model as common ground they are able to much better understand both the appointing party’s goals, which are to be reached, and the appointed parties’ tasks, which are to be undertaken. We explore the different roles you are able to play in the design and building process.
Proposal by students Madrigal, Maldonado, Nikolskaia, Real
Competence
We explore the different roles you are able to play in the design and building process. Within these roles we put our competence into the project, we serve our client, we assume responsibility, we take liability, and we are involved in the decision-making process. Furthermore, we want to present the multiple ways in which we interact with each other. Armed with a sound knowledge of everybody’s responsibilities, organisational forms can be determined for specific projects.
Proposal by students Madrigal, Maldonado, Nikolskaia, Real
Entrepreneurship
In line with our acquired knowledge of how to manage the project and how to interact with the involved parties, we now pay attention to our entrepreneurial spirit: how to run your own office. Firstly, we want to describe a simplified business model which illustrates how our business creates, delivers, and captures value. We should keep in mind that unique projects, in contrast to repeatable products, are in powerful symbiosis with corporate governance.